Water-closet bowl



line necessitates the placing of the box or one UNITED STATES ATENT tries.

HENRY O. VEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-CLOSET BOWL.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 323,473, dated August 4, 1885.

Application filed December 3, 1884.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. WEEDEN,0E Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater-Closet Bowls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to improvements in the construction of the so called washout-closet, and its object isto provide improvements in the flushing and ventilating apparatus.

In the accompanying drawings is shown a closet embodying my present improvements.

Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 3 a top view, of the closet. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec tion of the same; and Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sections on an enlarged scale upon the lines a: x and y yof Fig. 2.

One of the chief desiderata in the construction of water-closet bowls is that no part of the bowl shall lie beyond the vertical line of the front of the closet. Any such projection of any part of the closet beyond the vertical ing at an inconvenient distance from the edge of the bowl, and thereby impairs the usefulness and convenience of the structure. In washout-closets as heretofore constructed the pipe for giving the bottom flush has commonly,by reason of its construction and location,forn1ed such a projection. One object of my present improvement is to so form this bottom-flushing pipe that no part of it shall project beyond the outside line of the front of the bowl. In doing this it is not desirable, on the other hand, that any part of the bottomflushing pipe should project into,and thereby break the regular or elliptical contour of the interior of the bowl.

By my improvement I provide a double bottom-flushing pipe, 13 B, the two branches ofwhich start from any convenient points connected with the water-inlet Oas, for example, from the flushing-rim D near its junction with the said inlet. These two branches pass diagonally around the bowl upon its outer side, and meet on a level with the bottom,at which point they open into the bowl, as shown at B. Vhen so constructed, no part of the bottomflushing pipe projects beyond the front of the (No model.)

closet, which is that part which lies opposite the mouth or outlet thereof, and this enables the boxing to be brought up flush with the rim ofthe closet, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

Another object of my invention is to furnish an improvement in the means of conjointly ventilating the closet and trap. Heretofore the ventilating-outlet has been located within the pipe which con nects the bowl of the closet with the underlying trap and near the upper end of said pipe. This construction,however, is faulty, in that themouth of the ventilating outlet when so placed is liable to be choked by the substances thrown off from the floor or bottom of the bowl by the action of the bottom flush. Moreover, a ventilatingoutlet so placed does not sufficiently draw 06 the foul air from the bowl itself. To obviate these defeets' I locate the ventilating-outlet E- in the side of the bowl immediately over its junction with the outlet-pipe. This position of the ventilating-outlet elevates it, so that it is no longer exposed to the choking described, and it also furnishes a conjoint ventilation both of the trap and bowl not heretofore accomplished.

For the sake of convenient connection of the ventilatingoutlet 1 make it in a branched form, so that the ventilating-pipe may be attached to either end of the branch, as may be most convenient. The construction and relative location of this are fully illustrated at Figs. 2, 3, and 5.

I claim- 1. A washoutcloset of the character de scribed, having the bottom-flushing pipe located upon the outside of the bowl and wholly within the vertical line of the front edge of the closet, substantially as herein described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. In a washout-closet, the combination, with the bowl A and flushing-rim O, of the double and externallylocated flushing-pipe B, for flushing the bottom of the bowl, all substantiall y as herein set forth.

3. The combination, with a washout-closet bowl, of a ventilating-outlet located in the side of the bowl,over the mouth of the outletpipe, which connects the bowl with its trap,whereby said ventilating-outlet is removed out of the path of matters passing out of the bowl, and is also adapted to furnish a direct ventilation of the bowl, and thereby an indirect In testimony whereof I have hereunto subventilation of its outlet pipe and trap, subscribed my name this 28th day of November, stantiully as set forth. A. D. 1884.

4. In a washout-closet, the combination of 5 the bowl A, outlet-pipe F,conneoting the bowl HENRY G. WEEDEN.

and its trap, and the branched ventilatingout let E,located in the side of the bowl itself, and Witnesses:

above the point of connection between the J. HENRY TAYLOR, bowl and'its outlet-pipe F, all substantially as JAMES F. BLIGH. 10 set forth. 

